Artist Spotlight - Alina Ramos
Alina Ramos is a young, vibrant, talented dancer. HarmoNNY is thrilled to introduce her as our October Artist Spotlight.
Alina has been dancing in a studio since the age of three. She remembers watching Barbie in the 12 Dancing Princesses and knew right away that she wanted to dance. Alina moved to the North Country with her family from Germany in 2012 and started taking classes at Dance World. While in high school at General Brown, Alina helped set up a dance club. “For me, dance was a really great safe place. I was never a sporty kid ... but dance, that was my thing. I was being physically active. It was really good for my mental health because it gave me something that I could go do and not worry about anything else.” Along with dance, Alina was also involved in chorus and performed in all the school musicals during high school.
One of Alina’s favorite performances was dancing yearly at the local nursing homes during the holiday season. She loves using her talents to bring people joy and to make them smile. Alina has begun sharing her passion for dance with others as she now also teaches dance classes at Dance World to 8-10 students. Alina’s dance teacher, Heather Miner, shares that Alina “is an exemplary example of dedication, hard work and kindness at our dance studio. She takes her own dance classes and works 110% in all of them ... She works hard at home or on her own time rehearsing, stretching and doing strength exercises. She is a role model for all of the other students at the studio not only for how to be a great dancer but how to be a great person. She is respectful, caring and well rounded.”
Alina is currently a freshman at Jefferson Community College enrolled as a Humanities and Social Science major. She hopes to become a Speech Pathologist as she has a desire to help people, especially young children.
Alina’s advice to any aspiring dancer is to “go find a dance class!” She believes that dance is a great stress reliever and a fun way to move and be active. Alina encourages anyone to try it as “dance is very interpretive, [and] there is no right or wrong way to do it!”
To find out more about Alina, watch the video below.
